Sugar: A Bittersweet History

Sugar: A Bittersweet History offers a perceptive and provocative investigation of a commodity that most of us savour every day yet know little about. Impressively researched and commandingly written, this thoroughly engaging book follows the history of sugar to the present day. It is a revealing look at how sugar changed the nature of meals, fuelled the Industrial Revolution, generated a brutal new form of slavery, and jumpstarted the fast-food revolution.

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Página 29The Taino holocaust is a tragedy on several levels because it provided the
blueprint for the slavery that destroyed the lives and culture of millions of the
Africans and others imported to work sugar plantations. Producers of other
commodities ...

Página 79The unarmed rebels rarely triumphed, but every insurrection was a declaration of
defiance and hatred and set the tone for the slaves' new lives. Those new lives
began anywhere from five weeks to two or three months later. Then slave traders
...

Página 284483 Yet slaves had no choice, and gouged out a measure of dignity through
wages that acknowledged their invaluable labor and enabled them to improve
their lives. The sugar lords controlled every aspect of their slaves' life, even their ...

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Was disappointed in this, although it did have its moments. Parts were undigested, and it lacked a real overview and global perspective somehow. That being said, i devoured the detail on the West Indian lobby and British sugar traders.Leer comentario completo

Acerca del autor (2008)

ELIZABETH ABBOTT is the bestselling author of A History of Celibacy, A History of Mistresses, A History of Marriage, and Sugar. Abbott has written for numerous media, including The Huffington Post, The Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star, the Ottawa Citizen, and The Gazette (Montreal). She lives in Toronto.